INDECENT PICTURES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10066, 3 August 1925, Page 3

INDECENT PICTURES

A PREACHEEfS INDICTMENT.

“Just a few days ago there appeared in a shop window in our town” said the Rev. G. T. Brown, M.A., at St. Andrew’s Church, Palmerston North, recently, "a figure of such coarse, low suggestiveness' and blatant obscenity that every true woman must have felt it to he an impudent affront to all the commonly recognised decencies of Lie. There was no pretence at art of beauty. Its sole merit was its indecency. Several women, including representatives ot our local W.C.T.U., went in and protested, but the hideous thing was allowed to remain xo pollute the soul of every growing hoy or girl who happened, to ga ze upon it, until the police intervened, and the loathsome thing was withdrawn. '. • “It lias been suggested,” continued the speaker, “that we establish a v : gilanee committee in each town, and that would po doubt be a wise move.” The speaker urged every member of the congregation each to const'tute himself a vigilance committee in the meantime, and whenever lie saw literature, picture, image, _or anything of a revolting or (1 sgusting nature to at once make h-s personal protest. If this was not sufficient, the aid of the police dould ho invoke od who were a 1 ways sympathetic and helpful. But there was another weapon in their hands A Chrstian community should cease to support firms so dead to ther moral responsibilit es that they exposed these things ior sale. -